Well arrived home safely on the 14th March at 5.00am in the morning. My son bright & jolly collected me & we arrived at his house for a very happy reunion with all @ 6.30 in the morning big banner up welcoming me home. Kids very excited, before they went off to school I had a couple of bad mosquito bites & wasn't feeling great but a visit to the doctors very strong antibiotic's , so by Sunday started to feel a lot better ready for a great Mothers D...

Can't say I will be sorry to have my last morning in this heat. Met Becca yesterday, she was in Takeo and was going to airport for 9.am today so we shared a taxi All good left at 12.00 landed by 3 quick Flight. It is 4.00 here so that's good lost an hour as flight out isn't till 11.45pm. Long wait but HK airport is possibly one of the best ones to wait at. Great excitement brilliant toilets and I can flush paper, whoopee. I still looked at the bin then to...

Well I'm ready,might be phycological but suddenly its all too hot and dusty. Final good bye was said yesterday, we played games and had fun, the sugar cane man turned up & 43 drinks later costing the grand total 22.000 riel ( just over 5.00 dollars) balloons & other little gifts that I knew they would like. I left luckily it was quite quick as Tuktuk was waiting so didn't seem as sad as normal. I guess 3 times of saying goodbye they think your going bac...

It's been a hard few days, taken 44 kids shopping plus the odd job boy/man Friday to the Market mostly five at a time. Learnt the first trip that 10 girls on a shopping trip is just to many in one go. Must say the boys were quicker and easier. Girls can shop whatever the country!!!!!! Each child/ person had €5/6 dollars to spend.; ( some went over) I did get them to do me a list for ideas which helped . It was mostly school uniform, trousers, jeans, s...

When I arrived this was all under water for the rainy season was just finishing at the end of October,so I'm getting out before it starts again as they get lot of rain here. Wednesday, got to say I'm bored with writing this, especially when you look and find what you thought was saved as a draft has gone. Basically I had mentioned that my bike has had a flat tyre nearly everyday since I got back here. Just gone down to check it flat again. It's great here as the...